ele:Vate

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• eleVate
• Economic Literacy Education
• Vital Assets for
• Transformation Empowerment
• Training for the 3rd R

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• eleVate
• Mission to help Christian community ministry
  practitioners educate and excite urban youth
  about economics, financial literacy, and
  entrepreneurship.

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CCDAs 3rd R Its About Community Economic D
evelopment

• Developing the capacities and potentialities of
  people and of neighborhoods to bring greater hope
  and renewal to economically distressed areas
  
• Small business development job creation
• Job training, job placement, job retention
• Raising up indigenous entrepreneurs
• Successful integration into the mainstream
  economy e.g., managing credit, building assets

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CCDAs Method

• With each of the 3 Rs, workshops try to
  discuss
  
• WHAT it is
• WHY it matters
• WHAT the Word has to say about it
• WHAT it looks like
• HOW to advance it
• HOW others have done it

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This Workshops 2 Mandates

• Lay the Biblical foundation or framework
• (2) Offer introductory thoughts on practical
  application

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The eleVate Workshop Track
Thurs 100 Biblical Foundations of Economic
Literacy Thurs 245 Economic Education for
Urban Youth Friday 100 Can you trust me w
ith your credit card? Friday 245 The Job Cl
ub Sat 100-400 Creating True WealthYouth En
trepreneurship Parts I II
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FOUR BIBLICAL PARADIGMS

• THE CREATION PARADIGM
• THE CONSUMATION PARADIGM
• THE WISE LAW PARADIGM
• 4. THE KINGDOM PARADIGM

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The CREATION Paradigm

• 4 Central Themes
• CREATIVITY man is made in Gods image (Gen.
  126). The main characteristic we see of God in
  this part of scripture is that God is creative.
  
• 2. Our VICEREGENCY God grants humankind
  dominion over nature, to steward it with
  authority, responsibility care man names
  things (Gen. 128-30 215 219)
• 3. WORK that is pleasurable, fruitful,
  productive, satisfying
  
• 4. FREEDOM (its implicit and makes possible the
  first three themes)

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The CONSUMMATION Paradigm

• Central Themes
• Our VICEREGENCY Rev. 225 talks about how wethe
  fully redeemed people of Godwill reign forever
  and ever.
  
• 2. We see CREATIVITY pleasurable WORK

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The Consummation Paradigm
A Radical Reality The kings of the earth wil
l bring their splendor into it the New
Jerusalem.
-- Rev. 2124
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The WISE LAW Paradigm

• Central Themes
• Sabbath rest for people, animals, and land
• Stewardship, not exploitation of nature
• Individual responsibility freedom
• Just weights and measures (Lev 1935-36)
• Special safety nets for the widow, the orphan
  and the
  
• stranger
• Avoid sloth folly (Prov. 1227 2819)
• Practice thrift (Prov. 2120)
• Future orientation (Prov. 1322)

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The KINGDOM Paradigm

• Central Theme Principles for our In Between
  Time
  
• How God wants us to BE and to LIVE in this
  world that is still fallen but that has begun to
  be restored because the Kingdom has broken into
  it.
• Continued assumptions (from the Wise Law)
• But a new orientation, because of the Kingdoms
  now-ness

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The Kingdom Paradigm

• Some Continued assumptions
• (from the Wise Law)
• Necessity of hard work
• Assumption of private property
• Mercy and justice for the vulnerable
• The folly of hoarding
• The need for risk assessment

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The Kingdom Paradigm

• But A New Charge, in light of the Kingdoms
  Presence
  
• How to give people a foretaste of the
  consummation?
  
• How do we promote Gods ideal today?

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Challenges of the Urban Ministry Setting

• Economic distressed communities few job
  opportunities, few home-owners
  
• 2. Lack of hope for the future crime, poor
  schools, domestic violence, drugs, unemployment
  all influence youth
  
• 3. Street culture that vigorously promotes
  present-day orientation props
  
• 4. Socially isolated communities lack of
  networks through which to hear about good
  opportunities spatial mismatch of jobs and
  workers and poor public transport
• 5. Less-than-ideal consumer habits e.g.,
  rent-to-own little trust in/use of financial
  institutions (banks) high mark-up convenience
  shopping
• 6. Economic injustices redlining, lack of
  business entry, discrimination in hiring

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Applications What Can Ministries Do?
Sow hope! (the Anathoth principle)
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Applications What Can Ministries Do?

• Teach financial life skills

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FAST FACTS Why Financial Literacy is SO Crucial

• Only 10.2 of high school seniors score a C or
  better on the Basic
  
• Financial Survival Skills Test.
• 79 of students ages 16 through 22 have never
  taken a class in personal
  
• finance.
• 42 of teenagers between ages 18-19 have credit
  cards.
  
• 64 of teenagers dont know what an interest
  rate is.
  
• Two-thirds of teens admit that they could use
  more lessons on money
  
• management.
• 70 of college students hold credit cards.
  One-fifth carry debts on these
  
• cards of more than 10,000.
• Average American household owns 14.7 bank,
  store, credit cards carries
  
• an unpaid balance of 5900 on them!

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Applications What Can Ministries Do?

• Practice integration
• into the economy
• (as it is)

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Applications What Can Ministries Do?
Economic Justice Advocacy (to reform it as i
t should be)
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Applications What Can Ministries Do?

• Promote entrepreneurship